The ballerina was creepy! When I think back on it though, the little ballerina at the start of the episode (where Oswin was making souffle's and such) was, I think, a clue that her little world was a fantasy.

This episode is the first one in a long time that really really made me HATE Daleks, for what they did to poor Oswin. Ugh. I think the Doctor was more angry at the Daleks for what they did, and . . . hopeless in a way? Which didn't strike me as disgusting particularly, but more that he didn't think that he could possibly ever save her. Her choosing to stay there was a bit of a pat solution, but I hope that when we meet her again, it's after the fact here and not a timey-wimey of something going before. I hope she teleported up as a Dalek, insinuated herself into the TARDIS and manages to somehow do a consciousness transfer or something. So the Doctor is stuck with her and stuck with the fact that he didn't think he could save her and so she went and did it herself.

Ugh, ugh, ugh, Moffat! So freaking cruel. Not that I don't like it; it's new and different and I hope they do something new and difficult with it. (I won't be crushed if they don't--though if the Doctor goes back and tries to take Oswin off to see the world before she gets Dalek-ified, would that be a Charley Pollard-esque effing with the Web of Time?)